Nafeesah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Nafeesah

The Social Security Administration has registered 206 babies named Nafeesah between 1976 and 2022, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nafeesah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 24 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nafeesah performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 92 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nafeesah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Nafeesah in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nafeesah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 206 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.